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@kobilacroix OFC #Greedflation will mean that corporations like #Apple will just 1:1 the prices even if the #USD:#EUR goes 2:1.

  • They already did it that in the past, and when the $:€ was >1,60:1, it was cheaper for folks to fly to #NYC, sleep one bight in a hotel, buy an #iPhone and fly back to #Germany with #customs & #ImportTax paid...

And yes, I knew a time when people got paid to order for pickup Apple devices in the #USA, fly back with them and properly declare them at customs because even at 2x19% tax + buying new chargers it was cheaper than accepting 60% price gouging.

  • So just because the #iPhone will get 104% tariffs in the #US and the #EU production never enters the US it'll likely get parity by numbers because Apple always flexes numbers in disadvantage for buyers!

Also no #retailer will accept sucking up the losses, cuz even if Apple were to make 80% margin on their devices at their stores, they'd be in the red without raising prices...

  • But in essence you're correct: #Consumers WILL GET SHAFTED and not the corporations - that's how it's always been! (Ask Brazilians about non - domestic-built game console prices!)…
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@wilms Ich hab mich nach 17 Jahren #Apple davon gelöst, bzw. bin dabei. #icloud, #MacOS und auch mein #MacBookPro habe ich ersetzt. Einzig mein #iPhone und meine #AppleWatch liegen hier noch, allerdings ohne nennenswerte Anbindung an iCloud.
Wie ich es angestellt habe, dokumentiere ich hier: blog.jenniferlostthewar.de/
Lass uns gern dazu austauschen. Ich fand es erleichternd und spannend zugleich, zu realisieren, wie weit man schleichend von Apple abhängig geworden ist und sich dann daraus befreit.

blog.jenniferlostthewar.deJennifer Lost The War

Really enjoying this line of products being sold via tik Tok videos where they're like "Cancel your iCloud subscription and just buy this 1 terabyte USB drive for $13!!!!!"

1) You don't understand why cloud backup is important
2) I'm not trusting a $13 USB drive

Hopefully, some European company is working on a Phone and OS to replace the USA systems.
We do NOT want their Google or Apple stuff in this situation. The USA controls those companies, therefore they control your communication ability.
They could easily shut it down.
We have more than enough tech geniuses here - tell me someone is working on this?
Some version of Linux Mint, or Tiny Linux, or similar? I would buy it in a heartbeat.
#europe #linux #phone #iPhone #microsoft #android #communication #tariffs #freedom

"There is no universe in which Apple snaps its fingers and begins making the iPhone in the United States overnight. It could theoretically begin assembling them here, but even that is a years-long process made infinitely harder by the fact that, in Trump’s ideal world, every company would be reshoring American manufacturing at the same time, leading to supply chain issues, factory building issues, and exacerbating the already lacking American talent pool for high-tech manufacturing. In the long term, we could and probably will see more tech manufacturing get reshored to the United States for strategic and national security reasons, but in the interim with massive tariffs, there will likely be unfathomable pain that is likely to last years, not weeks or months.

The truth is that, assembled in the U.S. or not, the iPhone is a truly international device that is full of components manufactured all over the world and materials mined from dozens of different countries. Apple has what is among the most complex supply chains that has ever been designed in human history, and it is not going to be able to completely change that supply chain anytime soon.

We can see how the iPhone is made today by looking at numerous reports that Apple puts out every year, which outlines its current supply chain and workforce requirements"

404media.co/a-us-made-iphone-i

404 Media · A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy"The army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America."
#USA#Trump#Tariffs
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So to test this out, i put my phone in low power mode. Since i don’t do that often, i got this warning. It says “mail fetch…is disabled” which i expect for BACKGROUND fetching. But if I’m in the mail app asking it to check my mail right now, I don’t see why it should refuse. It will play audio books, videos, and many things that take more power than IMAP when it is in low power mode. That’s so bizarre.
#ios #iphone #mail

Anybody ever had problems with an #iphone and #IMAP on a #selfhosted #email server? Feel free to boost for fun.

I was just helping my wife and her mail app (iPhone 13, iOS 18.3.2) would just spin saying “connecting”. I’m standing next to her, with my iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 18.3.2 and I’m on the same WiFi checking email on the same server just fine.

I tried a bunch of things. Rebooting, using cellular data instead of WiFi, closing the mail app and opening it again. Nothing fixed it. The root cause seems to have been low power mode. Her battery was low; so the phone was in low power mode. I plugged it in, took it out of low power mode, and poof! Mail connects just fine.

This is reproducible. If I go to low power mode and pull down on the screen to try to fetch, no imap. It just spins saying “connecting.” Come out of low power mode, imap is fine and fast. One thing we both do that is not the default is fetch email. The default is to push, and the phone polls quite often. I figure that’s a waste of battery, so we have ours set to fetch every 30 minutes. I’m a bit of a nut, so there are probably LOTS of other things that are not the default.

Anybody have any ideas?

I’m sure all of us have used low power mode before, and I’m fairly sure I’ve checked email under low power mode. I’ve never seen this before. #selfhosting

youtube.com/watch?v=VcSg7hK8Zo

#DaveNeal #TheRushHour

12.16 min. mark: Mum & her 3 kids kidnapped by #ICE and taken to #Texas being returned to #NewYork , officials say. #StopDeportations #FascistUSA

15.44min mark #ContentCreator #MsRachel targeted by the antisemitism weaponisation group Stop Antisemtism, ( which uses a broad sounding name), who are kvetching some b.s. about 'Hamas propaganda' 🙄 to AG #BatshitBondi calling for an investigation of Ms Rachel because she said a prayer to stop the violence against kids in #Gaza.
FYI, Dave is not sure whether it's true about Hamas hiding stuff in hospitals. If anyone knows Dave, tell him, no it's not true. Dave does know that the violence against #Gaza is wrong.

#FreePalestineNOW 🇵🇸

22.56 min mark #ElonMusk calls #PeterNavarro a moron. Takes one to know one., Elon. 🍿 🤣

24.52min mark: #Tariffs. Chinese imports. #iPhone may start coming from #India, etc.

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⬆️ @Daojoan

>> can Twitter economists who earned their MBA in comments section please explain how America is gonna conjure a billion-dollar #iphone factory out of topsoil and masculine vibes?

#LUTNICK: The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones — that kind of thing is going to come to America.

REPORTER: …if your big vision is turning Ohio into a low-wage iPhone screw farm, maybe it’s time to update your economic software

x.com/Last_DayWithYou/status/1

X (formerly Twitter)Last Day With You (@Last_DayWithYou) on X@atrupar **LUTNICK:** The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones — that kind of thing is going to come to America. **REPORTER:** With all due respect, if your big vision is turning Ohio into a low-wage iPhone screw farm, maybe it’s time to